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Dealing with Exam and Revision Stress
Feeling stressed may seem like a natural part of preparing for and sitting exams but it can be all to easy to let stress get out of hand. Managing stress is a crucial part of getting ready for exams, even if it may seem like an impossible task. There are ways to manage your stress levels, allowing you to concentrate on the important task of passing those exams.
New Directories for insite
Three new content directories have been published on insite which bring together links to useful information from across Warwick's websites.
Do You Know a Silver Surfer?
If you are, or you know of, someone who is over 50 and doing inspired things on the Internet or with email then Silver Surfer Day is a chance to recognise their achievements. The event is on 16 May 2003 and is part of Adult Learners' Week.
University Challenge - If You Think You're Smart Enough!
The search has begun for teams to compete in University Challenge 2003/2004.
WBS Launches European MBA
WBS kicks off training sessions for potential football managers
Does the Government understand what universities are for?
The Politics of Nothing
To ask the question today -what is the 'politics of nothing'? - is to refer to the phenomenon of destruction in the modern age. We are surrounded by competing banalities. On one side, we hear a repeated indictment of 'evil ones' who blow things up, be it Buddhist statues or world trade centres, apparently out of a simple demonical impulse. On the other side, we are plied with 'good reasons' why people should want to blow up symbols of western power: blame is placed on American foreign policy, the poverty of the Arab masses, or even once again on the Jews - this time, what they are doing in Israel. Banality is pitted against banality.
Nothing Really Matters
Mathematics is full of the weird and wonderful, so where could 'nothing' possibly have a place? According to the Collins New English Dictionary:
nothing (pron) 1. not anything. 2. a matter of no importance. 3. absence of meaning, value, or worth. 4. the figure 0
Community Volunteering Day for Staff and Students
Warwick staff and students are being invited to sign up and support local community projects in Coventry and Warwickshire at a Volunteering Day on Tuesday 14 January.
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Summer Degree Congregation 2002
This year's Summer Degree Congregation will certainly go down as one of the most star-studded in recent years, with an appearance by football pundit, Alan Hanson and rumours that Jimmy Hill was at large in the Arts Centre. We even had a regal visit, as members of the Brunei Royal Family descended for the graduation of one of their number on the first day of the celebrations.